Seasonal variability and geostrophic circulation in the eastern Mediterranean as revealed through a repeated XBT transect

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 1 PART I, 2003, Pages 33-47

  Zervakis, V ^a   Papadoniou, G ^b   Tziavos, C ^a   Lascaratos, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Oceanography; Physical (eddies and mesoscale processes; currents; marginal and semi closed seas)

Indexed keywords

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOCLINE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0038457669     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-33-2003     Document Type: Article

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